For Mancil Davis, standing on any given par-3 tee is like standing on the sixth at Oak Hill. He thinks he can make it. He can visualize the flight of the ball and its bounce and roll on the green. He can see it dropping into the cup. "There's a different feeling I get on a par-3 tee with, say, a 6-iron in my hand as opposed to standing in the fairway of a par 4 with the same club," says Davis. "Golf Digest hooked me up with electronic monitoring equipment years ago to look at my brain waves and see what was happening when I was on a par-3 tee. An expert determined that my brain waves were like that of a player looking at a 50-foot putt rather than someone about to hit an iron shot. The player with the 50-foot putt had some expectation that he might make it. That's the way I felt about hitting my tee shots. I have 50 official holes in one, but I have several others that have come in my outings or in very casual play. I don't know why I am that way, but I'm sure glad that I am." Davis, owner of Mancil Davis Enterprises, Houston, TX and a member of the PGA of America, has been holding his King of Aces events - challenging corporate and charity participants to tee off with him and hit the allusive hole-in-one for a chance to win $1,000,000 - a guaranteed payoff since Mancil astutely purchases insurance against such a one in 12,600 occurrence! (The National Hole-in-One Association, a private company that provides insurance for holes in one and other event promotions, has calculated that the chances of an everyday player making a hole in one on a par 3 are 1 in 12,600 swings.) Davis will customize an event to suit the most demanding of golfers! "They never get old and are always thrilling," Davis is credited with 50 holes in one (or "aces"), the most by any professional. "The greatest thing about them is you don't have to be Tiger or Annika to make one. Most people who play this game will never shoot par, most of them will never break 80, and a lot of them will never even break 90. But no matter what your ability, you have a chance to make an ace. I think that's the neatest thing about it. It's not like everyone is equal in making an ace, but everyone has the chance." Davis knew his odds were short while he was still a kid. Growing up in the west Texas town of Odessa, famous for oil and its high school football team, Davis gave Odessans something else to talk about when, in a year's time over 1965 and 1966, he made eight aces. Three of them came in a week, five in a month. All this at ages 11 and 12, and his feats earned him an appearance on CBS television in New York. Not all of them were perfect shots. "I hit a 3-iron 30 yards to the right of the green, it hit a mesquite tree and bounced left, hit a sprinkler head and bounced on the green and went in the hole," recalls Davis. "Maybe the most unusual thing about it was hitting a tree with a golf ball in west Texas."

Mancil Davis The King of Aces® Spend a day with the KING Mancil can appear at your corporate, charity, member-guest, or any special golf event. Your guests enjoy a full day with the PGA's career hole-in-one leader (a total of 50) and will also have the chance to win fabulous prizes for scoring their own hole-in-one. The "King for a Day" packages are: KING OF ACES® I: Mancil spends the day on a designated par three hole and hits a shot with each group. Any contestant that hits their shot closer than Mancil wins King of Aces golf balls. If the King is closer than the golfer, they play Mancil's shot. Each and every golfer scoring a hole-in-one on the designated hole WINS $10,000. KING OF ACES® II: All of the excitement above, plus 4 of your contestants compete at the conclusion of the round and a chance to win $1,000,000 for a hole-in-one. The contestants are selected based on a closest to the hole competition during the official round. KING OF ACES® III: Includes the King on a par three, the Million Dollar shootout for 4 players, plus one contestant (the closest shot from the 4 shootout players) trying a 50 foot putt for $10,000. Eat your heart out Tiger Woods! A day with the King is guaranteed to make your golf event exciting and memorable. Mancil has made personal appearances worldwide for such groups as American Express, National Car Rental, NFL Players Association, American Cancer Society and many more.